The capitalization (cap) rate as used in the real estate literature refers to the ratio of net operating income to property value. This rate has a particularly important role in property valuation, because the income capitalization method converts the expected income stream from commercial property into an estimate of asset value by dividing the net operating income stream by the capitalization...

Empirical data and previous research have shown that capitalization rates vary across different MSA markets as well as between different product types. The cause of these variations is not fully understood however. Theory would suggest that the cause of variation should be income growth expectations, or risk variation. Surprisingly, ex-post data comparing income growth and cap rates shows almos...

This paper presents and ‘estimates a model of the resale housing market. The data are a cross-section of monthly time series obtained from the multiple-listing service for a suburb of San Diego. The model is specified and estimated as a dynamic multiple indicator multiple cause system of equations where the capitalization rate is taken to be an unobservable time series to be estimated jointly w...

this paper measures event risk which is introducing by the ball committee to measure the effect of sudden news. this study calculates event risk by using the data of registered firms in tehran stock market between 1993 and 1994. for computing event risk, we use daily market capitalization for 80 firms during 1993-2009, then dividing these firms to three baskets; big, medium and small. the model...

The article investigates the role of bank capital in financing reproduction processes and increase of economic growth indicators, considers the essence of the concept of “bank capitalization”, determines the structure and main sources of bank capital increase. Taking into account the fact that Ukraine and Poland have similar vectors of economic development, the current practices of increasing t...

China stock market has been making great contributions to China’s economy since established. In this paper, a VAR model, with stock market factors and economic growth factors involved, is established to study the relation between China stock market and economic growth. The result indicates that a one-way Granger causality exists between the development scale of stock market and the animation of...

One of the most persistent myths in the investment industry is that it makes sense to use an index strategy in efficient markets, for instance with large-capitalization stocks, but to use an active strategy in inefficient segments. It’s important to note that the term inefficient is often used to refer to informational inefficiencies. But investors must also consider the full spectrum of costs ...